CJ, I'll email you, because yes, I would love to see that picture of Mary Fillippini. I confess I had to go back and look at earlier posts to figure out where the connection lay... :lol: But Mary is my grandfather Lee Angelo's sister, so that means she is my great-aunt! Isn't it amazing how the fami...

Hye, Lee! You said, "We need to confirm the exact town of origin, this could be listed on a manifest, naturalization records, marriage records, a death certificate, or even an obituary. Many of the older obits read like a life story, and yet some are simply written. By pulling as many documents...

Again, overwhelmed. You people are AMAZING! And Lee, yes, yes, yes, to the question if Lee Angelo had other children. Boy, did he. You listed the following-- Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999 Name: Ruby E Filippini Date of Birth: 7 Oct 1934 County: Whitley Mother's Name: Myrtle Bray Volume Number: 112...

I am dazzled!! Thank you, thank you very much, Lee, Riccardo and Ada. I hardly know where to begin with such richness. Quick question--was it common on census forms at the turn of the century to have such "creative" spelling? ;-) According to the post made by the dear lady on ancestry.com,...

Bon Giorno! (or Buena sera, as the case may be. ;-) After years of dead ends, I recently stumbled upon the very thing I'd been searching for-- the name of my paternal great-grandfather . I found it on a post on ancestry.com, but it had been posted four years ago. The lady's email address is no longe...